Girl's camp and a naked boy (that doesn't sound good...does it?!)

Girl's camp was AWESOME!!! I know...kind of dorky....but I LOVED it! It brought back so many good memories of my days at girl's camp. Since I was over the 5th Level Youth Leaders, we were in charge of a lot. We had quite a few meetings previous to our camp, which was kind of nice because I was able to get to know the girl's a little before going up there. I was a little nervous because there had been some bear sightings this year. Even a week ago a cow had died, just down he road from the camp, and they found 2 bears eating it. Creepy huh! I decided to check out some "Bear spray" at Sportsman's before I left, but it was $50!!! Instead I bought a whistle to scare them away! The first day at camp we went hiking up to some wind caves. It was Beautiful! It was only about a 5 mile hike, but pretty steep. The next day we went canoing (don't ask me how that's really spelled!) down the Teton river. Lisa (my friend who was also a leader up there), Susan, (the other leader who I met there) and myself decided to go in the canoe together. We only hit 4 trees, and tipped twice! We had so much fun though. The whole camp was pretty packed with activities, which was fun. There was also a huge playground type slide from the top of the lodge to the bottom of the meadow. That was a blast to ride on! I also got my share of pranks in. We put snaps on the toilet seats, we put cotton in the twinkies, we "mooned" another level (we taped moons to their cabin....come on guys...give me a break....it was GIRL'S CAMP!!!) We also taped a HUGE Bra made out of Red wrapping paper to our Bishop's windshield on Thursday night, along with some popcorn and a poster that said, " Thanks for all the SUPPORT! We're so glad you took the time to "POP" by." The very last night, after all my girls had fallen asleep, Lisa and I took markers to their faces! We drew curly mustaches, beards, uni-brows, etc! I though I was pretty hillarious, and only one girl woke up while we did it! (Even though I was being extremely loud laughing, and trying not to wet my pants. Do ya notice how everything seems 10x funnier after midnight?!!! I'm not a normal person, when it's late!!!) I also got asked by the Stake Camp Director to sing at the Fireside on Wednesday night. I hadn't really planned for anything, but it turned out fine. I happened to have a song there, that I was planning to use for my devotional, and did that. One of my cute girls practiced it on the piano in the lodge, and it actually sounde pretty good. It was also fun to be in charge of the skit and the "commercials" between skits. I decided to do stupid human tricks for a few of the commercials, and even though I taught most of the girls them, they made me get up as well. It was really fun though. I'll have to show you my hidden talents sometime!!!

Anyway, that was the gist of our trip. It was a lot of fun. I only got a couple of pictures of the hike, but here they are.

This is the cave behind us. It was a little hard to get into, with the waterfall coming out of it and all!
It was pitch black in here, and I had to be really brave and crawl through this little tunnel to get in! I look like one of my brothers with the hat on!

Thanks to James and his mom, I was able to go and have a great time and not worry about the kids at all. Well....as much as possible for a mother...I guess.

Also, my brother Cole got home from his misison while I was at camp, and I haven't even seen him yet! We're going home on Thursday for his "homecoming/missionary meeting" so that will be fun. We can't wait to see him! Carson is especialy excited!!!

Okay- I know this has been long, but I have a couple of quick stories about Carson. The other day I was in the kitchen cooking dinner, and Carson was playing with a fork and a spoon. I looked down at him as he was holding both of them high into the air, and yelling in his deepest voice..."By the Power of GOD!" I have NO IDEA where he comes up with things like that!!! I talked to him about not saying those kinds of things when we're playing, and hopefully he understood!

The last story was from yesterday. I was again cooking dinner, and waiting for James to get home from work. Carson and McKenzie were both running around the living room with blankets between their legs. Carson said they were pretending to ride horses on the beach. Well, five minutes went by and I decided to call my Mom and Dad, like usual every Sunday. I was talking, when I glanced in the kitchen only to find my 2 year old, stripped down to his Birthday suit and laying on a blanket in the kitchen! Apparently it was time to get off the horses, and bask in the sun on the beach! I asked him what in the world he was doing, and he said, "I'm at the beach, and we are getting ready to go swimming, mom!" For all his creativeness, I let him play naked at the beach until dinner was ready. Where did this kid come from?